The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-10-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

and, to commemorate the four hundredth
anniversary of the discovery of America.
THE Kruez Zeitung (Berlin) announces
that the Sultan Of Zanzibar has allotted
the whole coast coded to HIM by the agree
mont of November, 1866, to Englishmen.
Germans are abandoning all authority in
return for annual payments.
The chief officer of the Statistical Bu-
reau OK the Minister of Commerce Of Aus.
tria-Hungary has addressed a communi-
cation to Hon. Edmund Jussen, Consul
General at Vienna, in which he requests
to be informed in detail in reference to the
organization, powers and duties, ETC., Of
the Bureau of Statistics of the United
States.
IT is rumored that Colonel Sir West
Ridgeway, lately returned from his duties
as head Of the commission to settle the
Afghan boundaries, will assume the Office
Of permanent secretary to Ireland, re-
signed by Sir Redvers Butler.
THE President started from Washington
on his Western trip on the morning of the
Both.
"JBNNY LIMBS" illness has developed
into paralysis, and she is not expected to
live long.
DIR. RBIFF gave some strong anti-Gould
testimony on the Goth, before the Pacific
Railway Commission.
A. r. WEBB, of st, Louis, has been APP
poiAted United States Consul at Manila,
Philippine islands.
SIR JOHN Pope HENNEssEY is about to
retire from public life to his newly-pur-
chased castle in Ireland.
The President has appointed William s..
Putnam, of Maine, and James R. Angel,
Of Michigan, on the Fishery Commission.
JACOB SHARPE must go to Sing Sing, the
physician appointed by the court having
decided that his health will not be preju-
diced by his removal.
PoLYDoRE DE KUPER, Bulgarian by
birth, and a strong Roman Catholic, has
oeen elected Lord Mayor of London.
1T is estimated on one-fourth returns
from the State that prohibition was de.
feated in Tennessee, at the election on
the 10Th, by from 10000 to 20, 900 majority.
COLONEL RIDGEwAY has paper in the
Nineteenth Century laudatory of Russia's
civilizing influences in Asia, which it is
thought will operate detrimentally to his
popularity in British Government circles.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD was at the
Treasury Department on the 10Th, and had
conference with Acting Secretary
Thompson, and later attended the Cabinet
meeting. Mr.. Fairchild resumed active
charge Of the Treasury Department on
the Both.
JOHN SwINToN Of New York, has de-
ciined the Socialistic nomination for Sec
Rotary Of Stste, on the ground of i'll health
and necessity of mending his private
affairs, which he says have been ruined
during his devotion to the cause Of labor
CARDINAL GIBBONS arrived in st. Paul
on the Goth. Carriages were taken at the
depot for Bishop Ireland's residence,
where an informal reception was held.
MRS. COTTON, widow of General d. D.
Cotton, in an interview at San Francisco
on the 10Th, denied the statement made a
few days ago by G. P. Huntington before
the Pacific Railroad Commission in New
York, in regard to the letter written by
him to her late husband. She accuses Mr..
Huntington of falsehood in saying the
letters were stolen from the safe, and that
they were afterwards offered for sale by
her agents.
THE President and party started on their
Western trip on the Both.
Col oNEL VIM. r. MORRISON, of Illinois,
has boen allowed twelve dollars q month
pension as Mexican war veteran.
AYoUB KHAN, having failed to incte in
surrection at Herat, is marching toward
Candahar.
War Department on the recent Ute
troubles in Colorado is strongly condem-
natory of the whites.
THE Michigan delegation, both Of G.. A.
II. veterans, as well as the Woman's Re-
lief Corps, are highly elated, as they have
cause to be, over the honor conferred upon
the State in the choice of Mrs. Emma S
Hampton, of Detroit, as the National presi
dent.
SECRETARY LAMAR has decided that 6
grant attaches to the Northern Pacific
from near Portland, Ore, to near Puget
Sound, a distance of about 140 miles
This reverses a decision of Commissioners
Sparks.
TIE board appointed by Secretary
Whitney to report upon the pneumatic
gun carriages. and other devices has rec
commended that the pneumatic system bC
applied to the monitor Terror, and tha
the Government purchase one of the gun
carriages if necessary.
TIE Inter State Commerce Commission
has submitted to the Secretary of the In
teriOr its estimates for the next fiscal year
They are as follows: Salaries of commits
sioners, $4,000; salary of secretary, $4,000
all other necessary expenses, $500 to-
tai $4,000. The present appropriation
is 100000,
1'HAToR SAHIB, Of Morva, an Indian
prince, who has been looking over the
United States and Canada, arrived il
Cleveland on the Both. He visited Gar
fields tomb and the rolling mills in the iron
ward and then left for Saratoga. II,
travels in the late w. b. Yanderbit's pri
Y1te car.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A WOMAN giving the name of Mrs. Jen
ME Thorley, was arrested in the Nationa
Exchange Bank at Lynchburg, Va, on tn,
9th. while attempting to cash a check OF